CO-LAB - Common Voice Workshop
The Common Room, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1RG
Sunday 25th January 2026
CO-LAB
Common Voice Workshop
Explore your voice and experience the healing power of making music in community in this day-long, immersive workshop. Devised to respond to the curiosities and needs of the individual participants in a held and nurturing environment - stamp out your rage, wail out your grief and sing into your wonder, and take a toolkit into your own creative adventures.
Anonymity: Participants get to choose what, how, and if fragments of their explorations are featured in the Co-Lab exhibition process and space.
Please note: This creative session may run into the afternoon (until 5pm latest), participants welcome to leave at the time that suits their needs.
About Gwyn: Performer, composer / lyricist and musical activist Gwyneth Herbert has been hailed as one the most imaginative and idiosyncratic artists of her generation.She has collaborated with artists, academics, communities, companies, orchestras, pole dancers and puppets to produce a huge canon of interdisciplinary work that, whilst challenging expectations, seeks to find dialogue with the world.With connection and community at the heart of her practice, her work is rooted in a desire to question the binary, to reach across the divide… to hold both the shadows and the light and find the hope within.
Reviews
***** “A remarkably gifted talent” The Guardian
***** “Brilliantly original” MOJO
*****“Classic Bowie-like pop, belting blues and gorgeous jazz” – BBC
“She has a precociously powerful chemistry of taste and meticulous care for every sound – from a whisper to an exhortation” – The Guardian“Of the let’s say top 10 singers I’ve ever seen, Herbert is two of them” – Rochester City Newspaper, USA
Common Voice Workshop
Explore your voice and experience the healing power of making music in community in this day-long, immersive workshop. Devised to respond to the curiosities and needs of the individual participants in a held and nurturing environment - stamp out your rage, wail out your grief and sing into your wonder, and take a toolkit into your own creative adventures.
Anonymity: Participants get to choose what, how, and if fragments of their explorations are featured in the Co-Lab exhibition process and space.
Please note: This creative session may run into the afternoon (until 5pm latest), participants welcome to leave at the time that suits their needs.
About Gwyn: Performer, composer / lyricist and musical activist Gwyneth Herbert has been hailed as one the most imaginative and idiosyncratic artists of her generation.She has collaborated with artists, academics, communities, companies, orchestras, pole dancers and puppets to produce a huge canon of interdisciplinary work that, whilst challenging expectations, seeks to find dialogue with the world.With connection and community at the heart of her practice, her work is rooted in a desire to question the binary, to reach across the divide… to hold both the shadows and the light and find the hope within.
Reviews
***** “A remarkably gifted talent” The Guardian
***** “Brilliantly original” MOJO
*****“Classic Bowie-like pop, belting blues and gorgeous jazz” – BBC
“She has a precociously powerful chemistry of taste and meticulous care for every sound – from a whisper to an exhortation” – The Guardian“Of the let’s say top 10 singers I’ve ever seen, Herbert is two of them” – Rochester City Newspaper, USA
